Shahjahanpur: The hearing date in the rape case against former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand has been postponed due to unavailability of the case file. A week ago, fire broke out in the record room of the court of Chief judicial Magistrate and hundreds of case files were completely gutted.The CJM court had issued a bailable warrant against Chinmayanand during the last hearing. The former minister has once again approached the Allahabad high court against the warrant. His appeal will be heard by the HC on July 24.Chinmayanand was supposed to appear in the CJM Shikha Pradhan’s court on Thursday. However, since the case file was not available, the matter will be next heard on September 12. “We couldn’t argue much as the fire in the record room has destroyed many files and we are unsure whether the case file in this particular matter is safe or has it been destroyed,” said the rape survivor’s lawyer. Mukesh Gupta.TOI tried to speak with Swami Chinmayanand to take his reaction, but he wasn’t available.Meanwhile, the rape survivor’s husband said, “He has once again approached the high court. He is trying every tactic to finish this case. We have been issued threats by his people.”

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